On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote:
> >I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked well,
> >until an upgrade.
> >
> >So I decided to remove TeXLive again and install Tetex, but now aptitude
> >seems to be caught in a trap. How do I get aptitude free?
> >
> >This is the output from aptitude:
> >Extracting templates from packages: 100%
> >Preconfiguring packages ...
> >(Reading database ... 156744 files and directories currently installed.)
> >Removing dvipdfmx ...
> >/var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx.postrm: line 5: /usr/sbin/update-texmf: No
> >such file or directory
> >/var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx.postrm: line 6: /usr/bin/mktexlsr: No such
> >file or directory
> >dpkg: error processing dvipdfmx (--purge):
> > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> > Removing preview-latex-style ...
> > /var/lib/dpkg/info/preview-latex-style.postrm: line 29: mktexlsr:
> > command not found
> > dpkg: error processing preview-latex-style (--purge):
> > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127
> > Errors were encountered while processing:
> > dvipdfmx
> > preview-latex-style
> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> > A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
> > Press return to continue.
> >
> >In order to remove dvipdfmx dpkg runs update-texmf and mktexlsr -- but
> >these are no longer on the machine. How do I get these programs away or
> >how do I solve this problem?
>
> Can you re-install them?
>
> Otherwise it's often possible to apply more force through using dpkg
> directly :-)
>
> /M
>
One thing I had to do in the past, when this has happened. create the
file (touch file.name) or create the directory, so it can remove them.
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